StartUp Podcast
StartUp began as Alex Blumberg documenting the birth of Gimlet, including the awkward pitch meetings he would rather have cut.
Later seasons left his company and followed other founders: a dating app, a dating-app failure, people discovering that a business is a set of personal compromises with a cap table.
The first season is the one that taught a generation of listeners what a narrative business show could sound like. Blumberg is a character, and the character is often embarrassed, which is why it worked.
Season one is the serial to play straight through. Later seasons are separate stories that reuse the method.
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